16x20” gouache painting on arches paper. Included with a gold frame.
One of the paintings from the Twelve Nights On Heaven's Headrest, created for the 2023 Bassetti Architects Artist Residency and exhibited at the Kristen Ramirez gallery in Museum of Museums in 2023.
Zhuyin is a celestial deity in Chinese mythology, first recorded in classical texts dating back to the Han and Zhou dynasty. It is said that Zhuyin has a human’s face and a red serpent body that reaches one thousand miles long. When he closes his eyes, the world turns to night, and when he opens them the world turns to day. Zhuyin is seen carrying a candle or a torch, intended to illuminate the dark gate of Heaven in the extreme north.
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